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August 2026

  1. Why Robo-Advisory Did Not Close the Advice Gap
  2. Circle Puts USDC on Chelsea Shirts, Betting Brand Awareness Beats Another Product Announcement
  3. Klarna CEO Just Bought $10 Million of Stock That Is Down 75% From Its IPO High
  4. Better.com Board Tells Shareholders: We Fired Vishal Garg for a Reason, Do Not Let Him Back In
  5. Stripe and Advent Walk Away From Their $53 Billion Run at PayPal
  6. Affirm Blowout Earnings Beat Is Mostly a Tax Story, Not a Growth Story
  7. Affirm Returns to Australia, Now Playing by Rules It Did Not Have to Follow Last Time
  8. Experian Puts Its Credit Card Marketplace Inside ChatGPT
  9. Helcim Raises $53M Series C, and Credit Unions Are the Ones Writing the Check
  10. BitGo Buys NYDIG Trading Desk as NYDIG Bets Its Future on Power, Not Crypto
  11. Revolut Puts a Name and a Building Behind Its AI Bet: Revolut Research
  12. Vanilla Wants Advisors to Own the Moment a Client Dies, Not Just the Estate Plan
  13. Parafin Takes Over the SpotOn Lending Program, and the Numbers Are the Story
  14. Grove Buys Into the Centrifuge Governance Token, Betting on Tokenized Credit Plumbing
  15. Nordis Technologies Bets Consumers Will Pay Bills From a Text Message
  16. Morningstar and PitchBook Plug Into Google Gemini Enterprise for Financial Services
  17. Accertify Adds HIPAA Compliance, Chasing Fraud Into Healthcare Payments
  18. FICO UK Card Data Shows Consumers Spending More and Paying Down Less
  19. Flagright Joins the Nacha Preferred Partner List for ACH Fraud Monitoring
  20. Fourthline Becomes a Qualified Trust Service Provider, Betting on Owning the Whole Identity Chain
  21. Boosted.ai Launches Alfa Prime, an AI Investment Committee That Argues With Itself
  22. Fasset Hits $1 Billion Valuation With SBI-Led $68M Raise for Stablecoin Neobanking
  23. Invoice Factoring in 2026: 4 Powerful Expert Insights
  24. AI in Accounts Receivable: 3 Hard Truths
  25. We Taught AI to Spend Money Before We Taught It to Be Right
  26. Swift, BofA, and JPMorgan Finally Show Up to the Remittance Fight
  27. A Wealth Platform Built Into Sports Gaming Is a Strange Idea Worth Questioning
  28. Agibank Joins the Subscription Banking Trend With Agi+
  29. Riskified and Marqeta Team Up to Stop Card Issuers From Declining Good Customers
  30. Lithic and Lightspark Put a Card Program on Stablecoin Rails
  31. Yellow Card Raises $40M, and a Standard Chartered Fund Is in the Room
  32. SoFi Wants Retail Investors In on OpenAI and Anduril, Through the Back Door
  33. Corpay Sells Off Its UK Fleet Business the Same Day It Posts a Strong Quarter
  34. Block Growth Runs on Cash App Lending Now, Not Bitcoin
  35. Circle Reports Its Federal Bank Charter the Same Day Revenue Growth Slows to 7%
  36. Chime Posts a Second Straight Profitable Quarter, Then Loses Its CFO
  37. Kraken Parent Payward Will Let an AI Model Hunt for Bugs in Its Own Code
  38. FINNY Wants a Cut of Every Client It Wins for Your Advisory Firm
  39. XP Take Rate Keeps Sliding Even as Money Keeps Coming In
  40. Deluxe Hands Its Merchant Business to the Guy It Just Bought
  41. Elavon and Sage Renew Their Payments Deal, but the Release Does Not Say Why It Was in Question
  42. Expensify Pushes Point-of-Sale Spend Controls to 14 Countries
  43. Melio Adds Expense Management, Betting Small Businesses Will Not Switch Cards for It
  44. Alpaca Gets Its CFTC License to Chase the Prediction Markets Boom
  45. Green Dot Posts a Quiet Quarter While Waiting to Be Split in Two
  46. REPAY 33% Revenue Growth Is Mostly One Acquisition Doing the Talking
  47. Navan Bolts On Fraud Detection as Its Travel-and-Expense Platform Scales
  48. Paysafe Turns Its Prepaid Card Base Into Wallet Customers in Poland
  49. Northern Trust Taps Lukka for Crypto Data, Playing Catch-Up Without Taking Custody Risk
  50. Revolut Gets a Second EU Banking Licence It Did Not Strictly Need
  51. Klarna Chases the $600 Billion Home Services Market Through Housecall Pro
  52. Intuit Pushes Intuit Intelligence Deeper Into the Mid-Market, Aiming at CFOs Directly
  53. Kinguin Cuts Ecommerce Fraud by 87.5% and Re-Ups With Ravelin
  54. Aberdeen Adviser Picks LegadoSign, Delivered Through FNZ, to Digitize Client Onboarding
  55. Alto Opens Up Its Private Markets Deal Room to Financial Advisors
  56. MEMX Wants to List Prediction Contracts on Company Earnings, and the SEC Now Has to Decide
  57. MeridianLink and Informed.IQ Say They Lifted Auto Funding Capacity at a Credit Union by 66%
  58. Modern Treasury Adds Paper and Digital Checks to Its Payments API, Because Checks Still Are Not Dead
  59. bolt Says It Has Built the First AI Insurance Distribution Platform That Covers Every Line
  60. Edge Focus Lands Atlas Merchant Capital Backing for Its Consumer Credit Tech Business
  61. Sionic Puts Its Bank-to-Bank Payments Tool on the Microsoft Marketplace
  62. Copper Gets a U.S. Broker-Dealer License and a FINRA Badge to Match
  63. Navan Adds OpenTable to Its Travel Concierge, Chasing the Last Unmanaged Line Item in Business Travel
  64. FloQast Study Finds Accounting Teams Are Buying AI Faster Than They Can Trust It
  65. PayPal Lets US Travelers Pay Like Locals in China, No Local Bank Account Required
  66. Bunq Research Says Women Founders Underestimate What Starting a Business Really Costs Them
  67. Rival Systems and Matrix Executions Team Up on Options Trading, a Quiet but Telling Capital Markets Deal
  68. Majesco Research Finds Insurers and Customers Are Solving Different Problems
  69. Amex Ventures Backs Fazeshift, Putting a Corporate Stamp on AI Accounts Receivable
  70. Allvue Takes Aim at the Messiest Back Office Problem in Private Credit
  71. DeepVest Launches MonitorLab, Betting Advisors Want AI Alerts, Not Just AI Reports
  72. Options Technology Expands Market Data Feeds as Trading Firms Push Into New Regions
  73. Socure Q2 Numbers Show Identity Verification Is Still One of the Best B2B Businesses in Fintech
  74. Kyriba Bets Enterprise Finance Teams Are Finally Ready to Kill the Paper Check
  75. Mercury Launches Cards for AI Agents, Betting Startups Will Need to Manage Machine Spending Like Employee Spending
  76. When the Guidefitter Payments Provider Walked Away, Credova Was Already in the Building
  77. UniCredit Hands Accenture Full Control of Its Tech Joint Venture, Keeps IBM as Supplier
  78. Circle Adds a New York Trust Charter to a Regulatory Stack That Already Looked Complete
  79. Fiserv becomes the exclusive payments provider behind the Datavault AI athlete NIL marketplace
  80. Ally Financial posts double-digit growth, but the EPS miss is the number that matters more
  81. Adyen data from Australia and Malaysia show retailers racing toward AI checkout while consumers keep a hand on the wheel
  82. Adyen brings Pix to TAP Air Portugal airport counters in Brazil
  83. Kyckr Posts 46% Revenue Growth, Its Best Year in Two Decades
  84. Expensify Brings Its Corporate Card to the UK and EU Through Marqeta
  85. Revolut wins full Australian banking license, commits AUD $400 million to the market
  86. Jumio Rebrands Around "Identity Intelligence" as It Reports Q2 Growth
  87. Diplo Becomes an Investor in Copper, the Cash-Back and Rewards App
  88. Alpaca Opens German Equities Trading Through Xetra, With More Markets Coming
  89. TRUE Releases Compliance Guide Ahead of Fannie Mae August AI Governance Deadline
  90. Schwab Posts Record Q2, Quietly Launches Direct Crypto Trading a Cycle Late
  91. Sterling Mutuals Names Continuum Exclusive AI Platform for Its 300-Plus Advisor Network
  92. Glia Launches Three AI Response Modes to Let Banks Control the Hallucination Risk
  93. Overtime Teams Up With Authvia to Bring Conversational Payments to Debt Collection
  94. CFA Institute Publishes Framework for How AI Reshapes Capital Markets
  95. NerdWallet Confidence Index Hits a New High, but Gen Z Did Not Get the Memo
  96. Seen Passes 250,000 Mastercard Accounts, Adds Two Credit-Building Products
  97. Matera Ships First Product Built on New ANSI QR Payment Standard, Targeting Fake-QR Fraud
  98. Carpe Launches Claims Suite With AI Image Forgery Detection, Adds MCP Support Across Product Line
  99. Qumis Launches "Attorney-Certified" AI Agents for Commercial Insurance Coverage Analysis
  100. JAGGAER and Conferma Bring Embedded Virtual Cards to JAGGAER Pay, Marking First European Push
  101. Poor Credit Now Costs US Drivers More Than a DUI in 27 States, TheZebra Finds
  102. Survey Finds 64-Point Gap Between What Insurance Executives and Underwriters Believe About Their Own AI Tools
  103. iGMS Embeds Damage and Liability Insurance From Safely for Short-Term Rental Hosts
  104. NMI Moves Into Hardware With Its First Android Card-Present Terminal Line
  105. Ex-Rapyd Team Launches Payments Observability Startup Cordant With $8 Million Seed
  106. Amex Links Buyer-Initiated Payments to the Bottomline Paymode Network
  107. Orion Passes $6.6 Trillion in Assets, Rolls Out Three-Tier AI Pricing
  108. Insurity Adds Confianza Property Risk Data to Its Underwriting Platform
  109. OneSource Virtual Gets Its Own Federal Trust Bank Charter
  110. Parafin Lines Up a Second Forward-Flow Deal, Up to $300 Million, With an Unnamed Buyer
  111. Zip Survey Shows Shoppers Want AI to Do the Research, Not the Buying
  112. Reserv Spins Out Its AI Claims Stack as AiDE, Prices It at Compute Cost Plus 10 Percent
  113. AppCard Gives an Independent Grocer the Branded Card Program Only Chains Used to Get
  114. Blockchain.com Invests in OpenWorld, Signs On to Back Its Tokenization Push
  115. Identifi Lands Mid Atlantic Federal Credit Union as Its Latest Keystone-Core Customer
  116. Vervent Says It Took Over 100,000 Subprime Auto Loans in 48 Hours After Tricolor Collapse. It Wants You to Know That.
  117. The Mandela Dollar Wants to Be a Stablecoin. Right Now It Is a Sign-Up Form.
  118. Underdog Ditches the Middleman, Launches Its Own Prediction Market Exchange
  119. CLARA Analytics Says It Cut Medical Record Review Time by 83%. Here Is What That Claim Really Covers.
  120. The Company Formerly Known as Mogo Launches an Investing App That Grades Your Decisions
  121. Pyth Network Just Priced China Biggest Chip IPO Before Any Other Global Data Provider Could
  122. tastytrade Adds Prediction Markets, Betting Active Traders Want to Trade the Fed Directly
  123. ICE and Apollo Want to Give Every Private Credit Loan Its Own ID Number. That Is a Bigger Deal Than It Sounds.
  124. Pagaya $900 Million Bond Deal Is Its Biggest Since 2022, and the Number That Matters Is Buried Two Paragraphs Down
  125. Kraken Parent Company Buys Its Way Into the Embedded Wallet Business
  126. Checkout.com Gets Closer to Issuing Cards Directly in the UAE, Its Fastest-Growing Region
  127. Cross River Will Power X Money, Putting a Bank Account Inside the Everything App
  128. Klarna Becomes the Bank Behind Apple New Device Leasing Program
  129. PayPal Transformation Plan Shows Up in Growing Volume, Shrinking Margins
  130. Conquest Planning Adds a Behavioral Coach Named Lydia Alongside Its Financial Advice Engine